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Ye Old Ruben Wells Locomotive

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2022 10:41 am
by HONDO74
The Ruben Wells Locomotive ran on the steepest grade in the US. Beginning in 1868, it operated for 30 years in Madison, Indiana, pushing train cars up the steepest "standard-gauge main-track grade" in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Wells_(locomotive)

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Steepest Railroad Grade in North America - The Madison Incline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06F63Fy4lgU

Re: Ye Old Ruben Wells Locomotive

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:34 pm
by Rufus T. Firefly
Lost your closing parenthesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Wells_(locomotive)

Children's Museum in Indy.....nice!